Bliss Luau [slideshow & VLOG]

June 4, 2011

Luau for local chocolatier today… henna, tattoos, organic whipped cream pies & summer attire: Lifeguard Clown in new Red Swim Trunks

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Oh dear, the count is… uh… approximately 450 pied faces! Thanks, Bliss Wunder Heather Duke, Maureen Nelson, Treypac McKaughan and all the pied faces at the luau today!

That’ll do, pig.


Lacey Spring Fun Fair 2011 [vlog]

May 21, 2011

This year’s Lacey Spring Fun Fair entry by the Red Nose Brigade included: Jusby, Sprout, Bean Sprout, Lilly, Buzzy, Stormy & Bubble~Trouble.

Sprout made the front page of the Olympian!

Jack Lobb, 2, gives a kiss to his aunt, Jenni Hatfield, who is dressed as Sprouts the Clown, during the annual Lacey Spring Fun Fair on the Saint Martin’s University campus on Saturday, May 21, 2011. The event continues on Sunday. (Tony Overman/Staff Photographer)

The alley planned to recreate our award-winning parade entry, “Road Apple Pie or Pie a la Road”, but we kept tweaking it…

  • We eliminated the fake apples we were dropping
  • We eliminated the hobby horses we were riding
  • We added horse ears and tails to our costumes
  • We eliminated the wheelbarrow
  • We added a riding lawnmower that towed a wagon
  • We forgot the large fake pie
  • We substituted a real pie

Consequently, of course, a dude got pied!

For some reason, we had trouble getting together for a group shot.  This is Sprout, Jusby & Bubble~Trouble.  Not Pictured: Stormy, Buzzy, Lilly, & Bean Sprout!


This is a girl I know from my day job.  She admitted that she had been afraid of clowns because she was traumatized by a clown chasing her with a balloon… at the Lacey Spring Fun Fair! However, it was before I joined the RNB, so I know it wasn’t me!

Coincidentally, I knew her mother from my time as an AmeriCorps*VISTA (2001-200).


National Train Day & Free Comics [vlog]

May 5, 2011

I just found out that Sprout made the paper on again on National Train Day!

Sprouts the Clown greets Nancy and Fredrick Gomes of Vancouver, B.C., as they arrive for a family visit at the Olympia-Lacey Centennial Station during National Train Day celebration on Saturday, May 7, 2011. Sprouts, played by Jenni Hatfield of Lacey, is a member of the Red Nose Brigade clown troupe. (Tony Overman/Staff Photographer)

Here’s the two of us getting almost all aboard!

There’s one guy who agreed to a pie!

Olympia Centennial Station

6600 Yelm Highway
Lacey, WA 98513Event Date: SATURDAY 5/7/2011

Start Time: 10:00 a.m.

End Time: 2:00 p.m.

Event Description: Celebrate National Train Day with the Centennial Station Committee! Bring the entire family to the ONLY train station in the Amtrak system staffed completely with volunteers and built with donated funds, materials and labor. Refreshments will be provided by Lacey Costco. Door prizes will be given away. Other activities include face painting and clowns, free stuff for the kids, and entertainment by the Dixieland band, DixieKats and the Olympia Bagpipers.”

When is MY train going to come in??

Then I took Orion out for Free Comic Book Day!


Purim Extraordinaire (~400 Total Pied Faces)

March 22, 2011

“My services have undergone expansions, improvements and tweaks. This includes an additional clown retinue,” began the conversation that led to 2011′s Purim Extraordinaire, a few notches above last year’s “Special Visit” which concluded with 10 pied faces.  Although I pied a few additional faces this year, I also brought a few additional clowns along, so the energy was significantly higher.

To the Romans it was Cobbler Rasa, the French referred to it as La Tarte Blanche, aboriginal clowns called it Entering the Creamtime, and of course the ancient Qabbalah clowns spoke of soulful and doleful schmaltz by the bowlful

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We are engaging with clowning as our Right Livelihood.  We would prefer to provide services to those who can afford the asking rate, but we will not deny the needy and the appreciative.

All reasonable barter and donation exchanges considered.

We are committed to providing safe, appropriate, and profoundly memorable surprises that are customized to your occasion and audience.  We want everyone to enjoy a healthy dose of laughter and leave with a deepened sense of their place in the community.


Lego Themed Party for 7 y/o Son of Mine

March 19, 2011

Here’s the artwork for Orion’s Birthday invitation.  Those are Lego 1xs (One By’s).  The bottom of the seven is a piece that represents scoops of ice cream.

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Lego Brick Cake from Cakeitecture.  She also makes Cake Pops (Frosted Doughnut Hole on a Stick) in the form of minifig heads.

Have to order these next time.

Parachute Fun

Birthday Boy gets the first pie in the face!

A Five Clown Party: Ridiculah, Honey, Sage, Jusby & Elliot!

Thank You created by Uncle Nick.

Guests also received a custom Lego Party Mix CD

Artist      –      Song  [Relevant Lego Theme]

  1. Daft Punk – Superheroes [Batman/ Spiderman]
  2. Bryce Panic – Hidden Track (Can I Kick It?) [Mystery Minifigs]
  3. Talking Heads – Papa Legba (Pops Staples Vocal) [Agents]
  4. Talking Heads – Stay Up Late [Classic]
  5. The Police – Demolition Man [Police]
  6. Cryoshell – Creeping In My Soul [Bionicle]
  7. John Williams – The Temple of Doom [Indiana Jones]
  8. Weird Al Yankovich – Star Wars – The Saga Begins [Star Wars]
  9. SWSFX – Ship – Flyby_17 [Star Wars]
  10. Andrew Zilch – Ewok Gospel [Star Wars]
  11. SWSFX – Force Lightning  [Star Wars]
  12. Star Wars the Musical – May the Force be with you [Star Wars]
  13. Jason Traeger – Love Faeries [Star Wars]
  14. SWSFX – Radio Chatter_1 [Star Wars]
  15. Mad Tea Party – Mad Watch [Belville]
  16. Harry Gregson – Williams – Ostrich Race [Prince of Persia]
  17. Sandman (the Rappin Cowboy) – Crazy Animals [Duplo]
  18. Gipsy Kings – You’ve Got A Friend In Me (Par Espagnol)  [Toy Story]
  19. Chuck Berry – Route 66 [Cars]
  20. Pink Martini – The Gardens of Sampson & Beasley [Town]
  21. Jethro Tull – Orion  [Space]
  22. Klaus Badelt – He’s A Pirate [Pirates of the Caribbean]
  23. Ministry of Magic – Marauder’s Map [Harry Potter]
  24. Ministry of Magic – Accio Love [Harry Potter]
  25. The Boyz Who Lived  – Wizard Rock [Harry Potter]

Folkshine 2

February 19, 2011

Got a call one morning from author-educator Steve Eggleston.  He had dreamed that he was doing another interview with me and found my number in the nightstand drawer.  He called so he could make the dream come real.  Technology has advanced enough in  two years that he figured he could get the interview sorted in a day instead of several weeks.

He’d iphone it.

So I arranged to meet him after a mercy pieing… went to a party w/o a contract and essentially busked. Total noble cause tho: peace activist.

We met at the parking lot of the Olympian.  I wore my Elvis shades.  He had six questions typed on the iphone.  I chose three and he took some snaps and a little video.

  • Can a clown be political?
  • When will we see a wikipedia entry for Jusby?
  • Is there anyone you would discourage from clowning?

 

 


RCR VD

February 15, 2011

Orion dressed up as a magician to accompany me to the RCR Valentine’s photo shoot.

Rusty Cock Ridge… it’s sort of a salon.  It’s more than a studio and a boutique.  It’s a always cozy adventure.

Jusby’s new hair by Toni of Euphorium.

New fans from Grampa Dave & Grama Julie (via Amazon) to coordinate with the red & black color scheme and keep the Indonesian bamboo fans from further injury.

 


Opening (a circle) for Celia (with Escariot)

February 13, 2011

Enya, Ani, Joan, Gilda & Tina… Wrapped into one! She’s a Pagan, a Fairy, a Librarian, and a recycling folk singer. [she keeps the heavy metal separated from the pop plastic]

Oly CUUPS and the Olympia Green Theater present
Celia Farran, in a benefit performance for the South Sound Pagan Pride Day Celebration

Celia is a cross between an Earthy Enya, Joan Baez, & Tina Fey. She dishes up the most delicious concoction of the silly & the sacred. Celia has opened for notable authors: Marianne Williamson, Neal Donald Walsche, & Dr. Masaru Emoto. She has provided live music for Off Broadway’s “Rum & Vodka”, authored “Symbol” (Anthem to the Pentacle Quest) and her “Irish Tales” has been nominated Best Storytelling CD by Just Plain Folks (The Grassroots of Grammies). Celia was born and raised in Wisconsin, currently resides in Santa Fe, NM & is touring with her 8th recording “Carry Me Home”.

www.celiaonline.com

Hear her music at http://celiaonline.bandcamp.com/releases

I had been invited by Ray Simkins (and Escariot) to perform a spell…

casting a circle and drawing down the elements as a comedy duo routine… ends w/ flaming pie + bucket o’ water (on me).

Getting ready to clown in the sanctuary!

Juggling fishes to call on the water element!

The element of air!

Center: the element of SPIRIT!

Up on stage with Gisela Sneezencoff

Ray pied.

I laughed, I cried, Ia Pied!


Olympia Film Fest Opening Night Pie-Fest (new total: ~360)

November 13, 2010

The first pied face of the night… Mushroom Head Guy

 

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From then on the whipped cream flowed like rain.. over men, women, and children..

Ruby… Cora… Nolan… Chelsea Baker… It’s Thea from Green Sweep!

Honey the Clown got promoted to chief pier for the night!

Ryan… Alison

Honey has a firm but gentle hand with the pies.  She also sings while she pies.

Daphne… Mia…  Puck Franta pied!… Meta Hogan pied!… Vivika… Zophia… Greg… Gray… Jason
Miss Kate assists the Festival Programmer, Ivan Peycheff, with the cape

Good thing we finally got the marquee in the shot!

Tina… Mike the Marine… Adam

27 signed up but only 26 went through with it.

We appreciated the support and generosity we were shown by the Olympia Film Festival.  It was an honor to be included in the street carnivale with the Artesian Rumble Arkestra, Illuminated Procession and fortune telling robot.

And the OFS Octopus, of course!

Pie in the face? Pie in the face?


More Friggin’ Fright Night

October 31, 2010

Thanks to Paul Thomas of GCI ad agency for these fabulous pix!

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  • Jusby, Paul, Stephi, and Heather
  • Thanks to Stephi Eubanks of Oodalally productions for asking him to come over!
  • Thanks to Mike of Eastside Big Tom’s for putting together a Haunted Hamburger Drive-Thru for Scary Jusby and his Flaming Pies! … and accepting a (non-flaming) pie-in-the-face!
  • Mike signs
  • Mike waits patiently… and so does devilman.
  • Done!
  • and Well Done! Next!
  • Definitely you, kid!  After what you said to the mayor…
  • Daniel gets his second pie (of the night!)… I was at his 8th birthday back in… June of 2008!
  • Random kid… “Me too”
  • Training Balloon Dogs to Jump Through Flaming Pie
  • Hot stuff coming through!
  • Are you sure I can’t interest you in dessert?


Fright Night… first peek.

October 30, 2010

New, Scary Jusby.

Boo!

See also: The Olympian article

For “Fright Night”>

EASTSIDE BIG TOM’S “FRIGHT NIGHT” featuring Jusby the Clown and his flaming pies.

Pieing Daniel Again… also finally pied Ben.

Mike got his and several others rushed up as well.  Waiting on pictures from Paul and Amber.

And for dinner: a Bacon burger with oysters and chipotle mayo, tots and fried pickles.


Pieing Sarah Bear

September 27, 2010

Sarah Bear had a birthday and housewarming potluck.

I brought pie-in-the-face on behalf of a mysterious benefactor who arrived too late to actually witness it.  The battery on the camera flashed low, so I didn’t get pics of all the kids [perhaps a participant will send them].

Here are the adults getting pied>

Imagine her surprise.  She had previously been the mysterious benefactor of over a dozen pies-in-the-face to her high school classmates, but oddly never been on the receiving end.

About Time!

“That was so much fun, I loved it! Thank You, everyone loved it, that was awesome!!!” Sarah Bear

Here’s Dabney.

And Kai!  I got a lot of personal satisfaction from this one.  He and I used to trade witticisms in 2nd grade (Last year).

This fellow celebrated returning to his Mother Country… which happens to be New Zealand.  (I think he’s lost)


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Pies for Ashton Place

July 10, 2010

Shortly before we departed Memphis, I volunteered to visit with staff and residents of Grama Mary’s care facility.  I brought pies and we did an abbreviated session of Laughter Yoga.

Here’s Theo, who’s celebrating a year at Ashton Place… and moving from custodial to ACTIVITIES!

“How are you doing, Theo?”

“I’m BLESSED!”

Meet Juanita.  She’s celebrating a year of Holy Deadlock… uh, Wedlock.

There’s Grama Mary at her first Jusby Pieing Event!

The main improvement to Doc Jusby’s costume is the addition of my COAI patch on the scrubs over the spot that said “Hospital Property”!  Thanks Aunt Elaine for making quick work with the sewing machine.  My hand stitching would have taken forever.

I still have to add:

  • Thespian patch with Comedy & Tragedy Masks
  • Rusty Cock Ridge Patch
  • Eastside Big Tom Patch

I have since upgraded to a salon cape for the piees, I can make changes to the lab coat as well – patches, embroidery, piping, etc.  That means an appointment with a seamstress!


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